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77-772: Downhill Racer was filmed on location in Kitzbühel and Sankt Anton am Arlberg in Austria, Wengen in Switzerland, Megève and Grenoble in France and Boulder and Idaho Springs in Colorado, United States. The film received positive reviews upon its theatrical release; Roger Ebert called it "the best movie ever made about sports—without really being about sports at all." American downhill skier David Chappellet arrives in Wengen , Switzerland to join

154-538: A slalom won by Heinrich Messner of Austria. Jean-Claude Killy of France and Nancy Greene of Canada were the overall winners for the first two seasons. Competitors attempt to achieve the best time in four disciplines: slalom , giant slalom , super G , and downhill . The fifth event, the combined , employs the downhill and slalom. The World Cup originally included only slalom, giant slalom, and downhill races. Combined events (calculated using results from selected downhill and slalom races) were included starting with

231-460: A 9 kilogram crystal globe. Sub-prizes are also awarded in each individual race discipline, with a smaller 3.5 kg crystal globe. Since 1967 , the big crystal globe has been awarded for the overall title. From the beginning to 1971–72 , discipline titles were awarded with medals. Statistically, those titles have the same value as the small crystal globes, which first appeared for discipline titles in slalom , giant slalom and downhill in

308-608: A Bavarian dominion as a result of the marriage until Louis' death). After the Peace of Schärding (1369) Kitzbühel was returned to Bavaria. Following the division of Bavaria, Kufstein went to the Landshut line of the House of Wittelsbach . During this time, silver and copper mining in Kitzbühel expanded steadily and comprehensive mining rights were issued to her that, later, were to become significant to

385-528: A British diplomat and spy, with his wife, the novelist Phyllis Bottome , started the Tennerhof school in Kitzbühel. Based on the teaching of languages, the school was intended to be a community and an educational laboratory to determine how psychology (specifically the theories of Alfred Adler ) and educational theory could cure the ills of nations. Among the pupils were the future authors Ralph Arnold , Nigel Dennis , Ian Fleming and Cyril Connolly . Kitzbühel

462-494: A given season are marked "NA"): Updated: 24 November 2024 As of 23 November 2024. Based on ski-database super ranking system (since 1966), this scoring system is calculated using points from three categories: Olympic Games , World Championships , and World Cup (overall titles, discipline titles and individual top ten results). Parallel slaloms from 1976 to 1991 counted for Nations Cup. There were no limitations regarding

539-475: A lift. From 2011 there will be no stationmaster at Kitzbühel and it will no longer be possible to buy tickets at the counter. Kitzbühel is twinned with: [REDACTED] Media related to Kitzbühel at Wikimedia Commons FIS Alpine Ski World Cup The FIS Alpine Ski World Cup is the top international circuit of alpine skiing competitions, launched in 1966 by a group of ski racing friends and experts which included French journalist Serge Lang and

616-433: A number of points for each place in a race, but the procedure for doing so and the often-arcane method used to calculate the annual champions has varied greatly over the years. Originally, points were awarded only to the top ten finishers in each race, with 25 points for the winner, 20 for second, 15 for third, 11 for fourth, 8 for fifth, 6 for sixth, 4 for seventh, then decreasing by one point for each lower place. To determine

693-453: A run on either course. The best combined times moved the fastest racer to the second round through bracket preference protocols. From the second round, skiers the head-to-head competitions were held over one run only, with the faster skier from the previous round granted course selection between the 'red-right' or 'blue-left' course. At about one-third the time of a standard GS event, top performers/finalists were able to make multiple runs without

770-410: A screenplay for the film, introducing him to Polanski and his partner, Gene Gutowski , who agreed to work on the film. James Salter prepared notes for the story, which did not resemble Hall's novel—Salter had not even read the book. Salter's starting point for the story was provided by Polanski, who told the writer that the film should be a modern-day High Noon , where the sheriff is killed and someone

847-590: A ski manufacturer who wants Chappellet to use his skis for the advertising value, but Chappellet is more interested in Machet's attractive assistant Carole Stahl. After a chance encounter at a bakery, he and Carole spend some time together. They meet up again in Wengen, ski the slopes together and eventually make love. At Kitzbühel, Chappellet wins the Hahnenkamm, but his cockiness alienates his teammates and coach, who feel that he

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924-543: A total of two races (one in the men's category and one in the women's category) and it was in 2002/03 season. The points were added together with slalom races. Introduced by the International Ski Federation to the World Cup as a spectator-friendly event in late 2015, the parallel giant slalom competition, or shortened parallel-G , joining the parallel slalom, is intended to lure more speed specialists into

1001-450: Is called in to replace him. For the film, the "sheriff" is the lead racer on the team who breaks his leg, and Chappellet is called in to replace him. Focused on directing Rosemary's Baby , Polanski soon left the project, and the studio sued Redford for walking away from the starring role. Redford later revived the project by pitching the story to Gulf+Western owner Charles Bluhdorn . Soon after, Redford found his director and decided to make

1078-516: Is mainly car-free and hosts a large selection of luxury shops , cafés and fine dining restaurants. The first known settlers were Illyrians mining copper in the hills around Kitzbühel between 1100 and 800 BC. Around 15 BC, the Romans under Emperor Augustus extended their empire to include the Alps and established the province of Noricum . After the fall of the western Roman Empire, Bavarii settled in

1155-486: Is one of Europe’s best-known winter sports resorts, situated between the mountains Hahnenkamm ( elev. 1,712 m (5,617 ft)) adjacent to the southwest and Kitzbühler Horn (1,996 m (6,549 ft)) to the northeast. The Hahnenkamm hosts the annual World Cup ski races , including the circuit's most notable event, the Hahnenkamm Races on the notable Streif slope. Introduced 87 years ago in 1937,

1232-402: Is only concerned about himself. The team's top racer Johnny Creech tells assistant coach Mayo, "He's never been for the team, and he never will be." Mayo responds, "Well it's not exactly a team sport, is it?" Chappellet finishes the season with several impressive victories, ensuring his place on next season's Olympic team. During the offseason, Chappellet and Carole continue to see each other. At

1309-522: Is over. Two weeks before the Olympics, and after a day of training at Wengen, Chappellet challenges Creech to a one-on-one race, and the two take off to the bottom as the coaches look on in horror. On the way down, Chappellet forces Creech into the stone wall of a narrow-arched bridge ( Jungfrau railway overpass Wasserstation ), and Creech barely escapes injury. The next day, during the Lauberhorn race, Creech

1386-531: Is seriously injured during his run, leaving Chappellet as the team's best hope for an Olympic gold medal . At the Winter Olympics, with Austrian champion Max Meier in first place, Chappellet performs one of his best runs, beating Meier's time and finishing in first place with all of the highly ranked racers having already run. However, an unheralded German skier in a later seed is turning in very fast split times. The fans fall quiet, and Chappellet takes notice of

1463-522: Is shown in the list to the right. In the 1950s, local legends like Ernst Hinterseer , Hias Leitner , Anderl Molterer , Christian Pravda , Fritz Huber Jr. and Toni Sailer wrote skiing history. They put Kitzbühel on the map and their names still resonate today. Now there is a new generation earning the title of Kitzbühel legends: Rosi Schipflinger, Axel Naglich, Kaspar Frauenschuh, and David Kreiner . Along with sporting achievements, fashion, and food, they are part of Kitzbühel's unique culture: Kitzbühel

1540-892: Is situated in the Kitzbühel Alps between Zell am See and Innsbruck . It lies in the Leukental valley on the Kitzbüheler Ache river. The town is subdivided into the municipalities of Am Horn, Aschbachbichl, Badhaussiedlung, Bichlach, Ecking, Felseneck, Griesenau, Griesenauweg, Gundhabing, Hagstein, Hausstatt, Henntal, Jodlfeld, Kaps, Mühlau, Obernau, Schattberg, Seereith, Siedlung Frieden, Am Sonnberg, Sonnenhoffeld, Staudach, Stockerdörfl and Zephirau. The neighbouring municipalities are Aurach bei Kitzbühel , Jochberg , Kirchberg in Tirol , Oberndorf in Tirol , Reith bei Kitzbühel , St. Johann in Tirol and Fieberbrunn . Kitzbühel's historic centre

1617-417: Is the relatively new 3S Cable Car , the cable car with the highest above-ground span in the world. In summer there are 120 km (75 mi) of mountain bike paths and 500 km (311 mi) of hiking trails. Other attractions include six tennis courts and four golf courses, the Kitzbühel swimming pool, Austria's only curling hall and the bathing lake of Schwarzsee . Kitzbühel primarily caters for

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1694-473: The 1960 Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley in which he would have been a favorite for a medal in the downhill. Werner died in an avalanche in Switzerland in 1964, while performing for a film crew. In late December 1968, Ritchie signed on as director. In 1969, a $ 6 million lawsuit was filed by Buck Holland and Jan Schimmel claiming that the film was based on their story Devil On His Hills , which they gave to Redford, and requesting Paramount to stop referring to

1771-447: The 1974–75 season, while the Super G was added for the 1982–83 season. The current scoring system was implemented in the 1991–92 season. For every race points are awarded to the top 30 finishers: 100 points to the winner, 80 for second, 60 for third, winding down to 1 point for 30th place. The racer with the most points at the end of the season in mid-March wins the cup, represented by

1848-406: The 1977–78 . In super-G , the small globe has been awarded since 1985–86 . For super-g races in the three seasons previous, points were added and calculated in the giant slalom ranking. The World Cup is held annually, and is considered the premier competition for alpine ski racing after the quadrennial Winter Olympics . Many consider the World Cup to be a more valuable title than the Olympics or

1925-504: The Bamberg monastery in Kicemgespuchel and, in the 1271 document elevating the settlement to the status of a town, the place is called Chizzingenspuehel . Kitzbühel became part of Upper Bavaria in 1255 when Bavaria was first partitioned. Duke Ludwig II of Bavaria granted Kitzbühel town rights on 6 June 1271, and it was fortified with defensive town walls. During the next centuries

2002-806: The Lauberhorn because of a late starting position, he makes his European skiing debut at the Arlberg-Kandahar in Austria, where he finishes in an impressive fourth position. In the final race of the season at the Hahnenkamm-Rennen in Kitzbühel , Austria, he crashes. That summer, Chappellet joins the team in Oregon for offseason training. He visits his father at his home in Idaho Springs, but they have little to say to one another. Chappellet drives into town and picks up an old girlfriend, but after they make love in

2079-570: The compromise of 1867 ), head of the district of the same name, one of the 21 Bezirkshauptmannschaften in the Tyrol province. When Emperor Franz Joseph finally resolved the confusing constitutional situation, and following completion of the Salzburg-Tyrol Railway in 1875, the town's trade and industry flourished. In 1894, Kitzbühel hosted its first ski race, ushering in a new era of tourism and sport. In 1924 Alban Ernan Forbes Dennis,

2156-535: The pistes and ski lifts in neighbouring Kirchberg in Tirol , Jochberg and by the Thurn Pass Kitzbühel is one of the largest ski regions in Austria. With around 10,000 hotel and guest house beds, Kitzbühel and its neighbours have an unusually high density of guest accommodation. Holidaymakers in Kitzbühel have 56 cableway and lift facilities and 168 kilometres of slopes available to them, as well as 40 kilometres of groomed cross-country skiing tracks. Of note

2233-627: The 18th and 19th century bypassed the town, even though its inhabitants participated in the Tyrolean Rebellion against Napoleon . Following the Treaty of Pressburg in 1805, Kitzbühel once more became part of Bavaria; it was reunited with Tyrol after the fall of Napoleon at the Congress of Vienna . Until 1918, the town (named Kitzbichl before 1895) was part of the Austrian monarchy (Austria side after

2310-711: The 19th century, so that these towns had a special legal status within Tyrol. Maximilian enfeoffed Kitzbühel, with the result that it came under the rule of the Counts of Lamberg at the end of the 16th century, until 1 May 1840, when Kitzbühel was ceremonially transferred to the state. An inscription in the Swedish Chapel dating to the Swedish War states "Bis hierher und nicht weiter kamen die schwedischen Reiter" ("The Swedish knights came as far as here but no further"). The wars of

2387-597: The Bavarian dukedom. On 30 June 1504 Kitzbühel became a part of Tyrol permanently: the Emperor Maximilian reserved to himself the hitherto Landshut offices ( Ämter ) of Kitzbühel, Kufstein and Rattenberg as a part of his Cologne Arbitration ( Kölner Schiedsspruch ), that had ended the Landshut War of Succession . However, the law of Louis of Bavaria continued to apply to the three aforementioned places until

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2464-464: The German skier who falls while challenging for the gold medal at the end of the film. The screenplay for Downhill Racer is loosely based on the 1963 novel The Downhill Racers by Oakley Hall . In February 1966, the film rights to the book passed from director Mark Robson to Paramount Pictures at a cost of $ 15,000 for producer Steve Alexander and screenwriter Graham Ferguson. After attempts to develop

2541-479: The German, watching nervously. As the German approaches the final schuss, he crashes, and Chappellet becomes an Olympic gold-medal champion. The German makes his way to the finish area, and Chappellet looks into his eyes briefly before being carried off in victory. In addition, uncredited appearances include 1967–69 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup Swiss competitor Peter Rohr as one of the racers, and 1966 Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize -winning director Christian Doermer as

2618-505: The Kitzbühel region around 800 and started clearing forests. In the 12th century, the name Chizbuhel is mentioned for the first time in a document belonging to the Chiemsee monastery (where it refers to a "Marquard von Chizbuhel"), whereby Chizzo relates to a Bavarian clan and Bühel refers to the location of a settlement upon a hill. One hundred years later a source refers to the Vogtei of

2695-518: The NorAm and Europa Cup. The Chief Race Director of the inaugural event at Alta Badia, Markus Waldner, on 20 December 2015 stated that "great performances" and "head-to-head fights" between the best giant slalom racers is the goal of the competition. The course for the first race was very compact at about 20–22 seconds duration, or about one-third of a normal GS run. The pace and cadence was the same as Giant slalom, not standard Slalom. Gates were set at roughly

2772-405: The U.S. ski team along with fellow newcomer D. K. Bryan. Both men were summoned by team coach Eugene Claire to replace Tommy Herb, one of his top skiers, who was recently injured during an FIS competition. Raised in the small town of Idaho Springs, Colorado , Chappellet is a loner focused only on becoming a skiing champion, and shows little interest in being a team player. After refusing to race at

2849-422: The World Cup points valuation ( i . e ., Grenoble 1968 and Val Gardena 1970 ); this was abandoned after 1970, mainly due to the limited number of racers per nation who are permitted to take part in these events. Beginning with the 1971–72 season (the sixth season), the number of results counted was increased to five in each discipline. The formula used to determine the overall winner varied almost every year over

2926-668: The alpine ski team directors from France (Honore Bonnet) and the USA ( Bob Beattie ). It was soon backed by International Ski Federation president Marc Hodler during the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1966 at Portillo, Chile , and became an official FIS event in the spring of 1967 after the FIS Congress at Beirut , Lebanon. The inaugural World Cup race was held on 5 January 1967 in Berchtesgaden , West Germany ,

3003-594: The anonymous hotel rooms, one after another, and the deadening continual contact with the team members, and the efforts of the coach ... to hold the team together and placate its financial backers in New York. And there is Chappellet's casual affair with a girl ..., who seems to be a sort of ski groupie. She wants to make love to him, and does, but he is so limited, so incapable of understanding her or anything beyond his own image, that she drops him. He never does quite understand why. The movie balances nicely between this level, and

3080-470: The back seat of his father's old Chevrolet, he shows little interest in the girl's feelings. Later, when his father asks him why he is wasting his life on skiing, Chappellet reveals that he is racing as an amateur to become an Olympic champion. His father observes, "The world's full of 'em." Back in France that winter, Chappellet wins the Grand Prix de Megève in France and soon attracts the attention of Machet,

3157-404: The best 5 results in the original disciplines ( slalom , giant slalom , and downhill ) plus the best three results in combined . When Super G events were introduced for the 1982–83 season, the results were included with giant slalom for the first three seasons, before a separate Cup for the discipline was awarded starting in 1985–86 and the top 3 Super G results were counted toward

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3234-648: The biennial World Championships , since it requires a competitor to ski at an extremely high level in several disciplines throughout the season, and not just in one race. Races are hosted primarily at ski resorts in the Alps in Europe, with regular stops in Scandinavia , North America, and east Asia, but a few races have also been held in the Southern Hemisphere. World Cup competitions have been hosted in 25 countries around

3311-558: The central character of David Chappellet. Salter's inspiration for the character was the 1964 Olympic silver medal winner Billy Kidd of Vermont , who conveyed an "arrogant and aloof" quality. Redford, however, saw the Chappellet character as being more like Spider Sabich , the dynamic skier from Kyburz, California , who finished fifth that year in the slalom . While the character ultimately took on aspects of both role models, Salter's original scenes of tense dynamics between Chappellet and

3388-421: The coach survived the writing process. The original inspiration for the character is said to be Colorado 's Buddy Werner of Steamboat Springs , (Chappellet was said to be from Idaho Springs, Colorado). Werner burst upon the downhill racing scene in Europe in the late 1950s and was the first American to win an F.I.S. downhill race. He was known for a reckless style but broke his leg in training two months before

3465-480: The day prior at the same venue. Overlapping qualifications allowed the sponsors to invite lower ranked participants to fill in gaps, as needed, and to replace individuals who declined to participate. Points were awarded and accumulated according to current standards for the race season in all relevant categories: the GS discipline, Overall and Nations Cup. The field was filled with thirty-two first round participants, each getting

3542-647: The east campus of the University of Colorado in Boulder, and the hometown street scenes in Idaho Springs, thirty miles (50 km) west of Denver . The interior scenes of Chappellet's Idaho Springs house were filmed at Paramount Studios in southern California . Sylvester Stallone appeared as an extra in the restaurant scene. Downhill Racer premiered at the Granada Theatre in Reno, Nevada , on October 28, 1969. The film

3619-498: The exuberance of its outdoor location photography. And it does a skillful job of involving us in the competition without really being a movie about competition. In the end, Downhill Racer succeeds so well that instead of wondering whether the hero will win the Olympic race, we want to see what will happen to him if he does. In his review for The New York Times , Roger Greenspun called Downhill Racer "a very good movie". Writing about

3696-470: The faster of the two technical disciplines, along with attracting their fans to watch the races at the venue, on-line, and on television. Few venues offer the slope and conditions required to host an extremely short Giant slalom course that can be readily viewed in its entirety by a compact gallery of fans. Modified or not, the Federation has not suggested that they will push the format to lower-level tours like

3773-403: The fatigue of a longer event. The course was methodically set with lasers, and a GPS-equipped Snowcat , to guarantee that both courses on the hill were as identical as possible to ensure equity and a fair competition. The Race Director suggested the difference between the two lanes were within "1–to–2 centimeters" tolerance of one another. The World Cup scoring system is based on awarding

3850-481: The film being based on Hall's book. Before the lawsuit, Paramount had already deleted reference to Hall in advertising and on screen and sought an injunction from Hall interfering with distribution and claiming the film was based on his book. Despite Paramount's intention, some studio publicity was released crediting Hall. Hall filed a counterclaim against Paramount. Alexander was also in a legal dispute to gain executive producer credit. As director Michael Ritchie admired

3927-475: The film cheaply in Europe. Charles Bluhdorn, who was Austrian, may have influenced the decision on film locations; he created the production company Wildwood. In January 1968, Redford was named to produce and star and traveled with Salter to Grenoble and accompanied the U. S. ski team — traveling on buses, sleeping in hallways, taking in the atmosphere, and observing the athletes. One night in Grenoble, they discussed

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4004-498: The film for both its esthetic beauty and its depiction of the brutal realities of competition. Schickel wrote: Downhill Racer is precisely what we have waited so long to see—a small, tense, expertly made (and, on occasion, surprisingly funny) film about a newly chic form of athletic competition—Alpine skiing. ... That insistence on the heart of the matter, winning or losing, is not the least of Downhill's virtues, but there are others. Quite obviously, they include capturing on color film

4081-563: The film were also shot at Timp Haven ski resort in Utah . Most of the skiing footage was shot from January 11 to February 1, 1969 , during four World Cup races: Internationales Lauberhorn in Wengen, Internationales Hahnenkamm -Rennen in Kitzbühel, Grand Prix de Megève, and Arlberg-Kandahar in Sankt Anton am Arlberg. The off-season scenes were filmed in Colorado: the track scene at Potts Field on

4158-445: The high end of the tourist market, as many celebrities and the jet set come here, especially during the international races on the Hahnenkamm. Together with eleven other towns Kitzbühel is a member of the community Best of the Alps . KitzSki, Kitzbühel's main ski lift operator, has managed to defend the title of “World's Best Ski Resort Company” for the seventh time in a row at the 2020 World Ski Awards. An International Polkafest

4235-448: The lead character David Chappellet, Greenspun observed, "His world is that international society of the well-exercised inarticulate where the good is known as 'really great,' and the bad is signified by silence. In appreciating that world, its pathos, its narcissism, its tensions, and its sufficient moments of glory, Downhill Racer succeeds with sometimes chilling efficiency." In his review for Life magazine, Richard Schickel praised

4312-551: The local Schwarzsee lake. The Kitzbüheler Alpenrallye is an annual festival of historic automobiles, first held 36 years ago in 1988. The first trip of the United Buddy Bears was 2004 to Kitzbühel, following by the first trip into the "big wide world" – when they went to Hong Kong and many other metropolises on all five continents. Since 2003, Kitzbühel has been hosting an annual Snow Polo event in January. Together with

4389-425: The next decade, with some seasons divided into two portions with a fixed number of results in each period counting toward the overall, while in other seasons the best three or four results in each discipline would count. Starting with the 1979–80 season (the 14th season), points were awarded to the top 15 finishers in each race. After 1980–81 , the formula for the overall title stabilized for several years, counting

4466-530: The northeast-facing Streif is among the world's toughest downhill courses, if not the most, and is infamous for an abundance of spectacular crashes. In 1959 the Austrian Alpine Ski Championships took place from 27 February to 1 March. Each summer Kitzbühel also hosts an ATP tennis tournament on clay , the Austrian Open . From 2007 to 2011, ITU Triathlon World Cup races took place at

4543-434: The number of athletes who could enter the competition, but each main event was limited to 32 competitors. Parallel city event is a version of parallel slalom where only Top16 ranked are allowed to compete. Length of the track and course/gates setting are also different from classic parallel slalom, and as of 2019/20 season, they are completely replaced with normal parallel races with qualification run. There were

4620-507: The other paradox—that this agonizing effort takes place, unlike that of any other sport, with the competitor alone in a sea of silence. Kitzb%C3%BChel Kitzbühel ( German: [ˈkɪtsbyːl] , also: [ˈkɪtsbyːəl] ; Bavarian: [ˈkxɪtsb̥ɪxɪ] ) is a medieval town situated in the Kitzbühel Alps along the river Kitzbüheler Ache in Tyrol , Austria , about 100 km (62 mi) east of

4697-425: The performances of Redford and Hackman, Ebert noted how well the film balanced the exciting action sequences and the less glamorous aspects of an athlete's life. Ebert wrote: Without bothering to explain much of the technical aspect of skiing, Downhill Racer tells us more about the sport than we imagined a movie could. The joy of these action sequences is counterpointed by the daily life of the ski amateur. There are

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4774-414: The project stalled, the new head of Paramount production, Robert Evans , used the project to entice Roman Polanski , a skiing enthusiast, to direct the film Rosemary's Baby for the studio. Although Robert Redford passed on Polanski's offer to star in both films, the young actor soon attached himself to the skiing film, taking it on as a pet project. Redford soon persuaded novelist James Salter to write

4851-416: The same distances as GS and on a slope of about the same pitch. The field of thirty-two were drawn following an invitational format. The top four men in the overall World Cup rankings were automatic invitees, if they chose to compete. Another 16 racers were selected from the top of the current GS start list rankings, and the final twelve competitors were selected from the 1st run efforts at the standard GS event

4928-415: The sheer beauty of the white world in which racers live. Here the director, Michael Ritchie, splendidly exploits a couple of paradoxes. From a distance, the skiers seem to have the effortless natural grace of birds in flight. Close up, though, he makes us see they are engaged in a brutal, breath-stealing ordeal, and the contrast gripped me as strongly as anything I have recently seen on the screen. Then there's

5005-474: The sport -- and continues to hold the attention as a thoughtful drama." On Metacritic , the film has a weighted average score of 89 out of 100, based on 15 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". In his review for the Chicago Sun-Times , Roger Ebert gave the film four out of four stars, calling it "the best movie ever made about sports—without really being about sports at all." In addition to praising

5082-444: The start of the third season, he invites her to spend Christmas with him, but after waiting several days alone, he realizes that she is not coming. He travels to Zurich to Machet's office to find her, but learns that she is spending Christmas with her family. The next week, Chappellet sees Carole in Wengen and is annoyed that she did not call and that she is with another man. After a brief confrontation, he realizes that their relationship

5159-470: The state capital Innsbruck and is the administrative centre of the Kitzbühel district ( Bezirk ). Kitzbühel is one of the most famous and exclusive ski resorts in the world. It is frequented primarily by the international high society and has the most expensive real estate in Austria. The proximity to Munich has made it a preferred location for vacation homes among the German elite . Kitzbühel

5236-480: The table below. As of 2 March 2024 A common measurement of how good individual skiers are is the total number of World Cup races won during their skiing career. The following skiers have won at least 20 World Cup races: update: 17 March 2024 As of 2 March 2024 As of 10 March 2024 Only a few racers have ever managed to win races in all five classic World Cup alpine skiing disciplines during their career, as listed in

5313-406: The table below. Marc Girardelli ( 1988–89 ), Petra Kronberger ( 1990–91 ), Janica Kostelić ( 2005–06 ) and Tina Maze ( 2012–13 ) are the only skiers to have won all five events in a single season. Bode Miller is the only skier with at least five World Cup victories in all five disciplines. The following skiers have won at least ten World Cup races in a single season (events not available in

5390-579: The town established itself as a market town, growing steadily and remaining unaffected by war and conflict. The town walls were eventually reduced to the level of a single storey building, and the stone used to build residential housing. When Countess Margarete of Tyrol married the Bavarian , Duke Louis V the Brandenburger , in 1342, Kitzbühel was temporarily united with the County of Tyrol (that in turn became

5467-458: The winner for each discipline World Cup, only a racer's best three results counted, from a typical six to eight races in each discipline (consistent with the then-current classification of skiers as amateurs, who couldn't be expected compete all the time). For the overall Cup, only these best three results in each discipline were included. Until 1970, the results of Winter Olympic Games races and Alpine World Ski Championship races were also included in

5544-596: The work of British director Ken Loach , Ritchie hired Brian Probyn and Kevin Sutton, the cameraman and sound man from Loach's film Poor Cow . Three weeks before the film was due to be shot, Paramount cancelled the film due to its $ 3.5 million budget but after reducing the budget, filming went ahead. Downhill Racer was filmed on location in Wengen and Unterseen Switzerland, Kitzbühel and Sankt Anton am Arlberg in Austria, Megève and Grenoble in France, and Boulder and Idaho Springs in Colorado, United States. Parts of

5621-1208: The world: Andorra, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Italy , Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States. Lower competitive circuits include the NorAm Cup in North America and the Europa Cup in Europe. Multiple individual overall World Cup winners are marked with (#). The following skiers have at least three overall alpine World Cup titles. The following skiers have at least three overall alpine World Cup titles. Combined crystal globes were officially awarded from 2007 to 2012. Here are counted all season titles, official and unofficial. The records for most World Cup titles in each discipline are as follows: Only four men's racers have ever managed to win small crystal globe in four or more different alpine skiing disciplines during their career, as listed in

5698-815: Was held in Kitzbühel in 1978. Road: The Brixental Road , the B170, from Wörgl intersects in Kitzbühel with the Thurn Pass Road, the B161, from Mittersill to St. Johann in Tirol . Kitzbühel station is a major bus stop for buses to Lienz and Wörgl. Rail: Kitzbühel Hauptbahnhof, Kitzbühel Hahnenkamm and Kitzbühel Schwarzsee are stops on the Salzburg-Tyrol Railway . Whilst Hahnenkamm and Schwarzsee stations are served by local trains only, long-distance services from Innsbruck and Graz stop at Kitzbühel station . Kitzbühel station has just been rebuilt (2010) and been equipped with new barrier-less platforms with underpasses and

5775-449: Was released on DVD in Region 2 format on August 13, 2007 by Paramount Home Entertainment. The Criterion Collection DVD was released on November 17, 2009. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes , the film holds an approval rating of 85% based on 26 reviews, with an average rating of 7.13/10. The website's critics consensus reads, " Downhill Racer plunges the viewer thrillingly into the action of

5852-707: Was released one month after Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid , also starring Redford. It was re-released in the U.S. in July 1984 at the Filmex (Los Angeles International Film Exposition) for a 50-hour Sports Movie Marathon on July 5–20. The British premiere was at Romaine Hart 's Screen on the Green known as the "coolest cinema in London" and the audience included Richard Attenborough , Laurence Olivier and Brian Forbes . Downhill Racer

5929-620: Was the town to host the remenants of the Nazi made Serbian collaborationist government the Government of National Salvation from 1944 to the end of the war. Kitzbühel also had the good fortune to remain undamaged from the ravages of the First and Second World Wars . Since the year 2000 the town has been a member of the Climate Alliance of Tyrol . The town's demographic evolution between 1869 and 2017

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